Golden Properties
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The Golden project covers a series of parallel shear zones with numerous historical mines.
• Located within the Ten Mile Gold District
• The area contains a number of historical gold mines and large placer operations.
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Location
The Golden Project is located near Idaho State Highway 14, 33 miles east of Grangeville, Idaho.
The infrastructure is excellent with a paved State highway, electrical service, and access to labor and services nearby. The project contains three named historical producing gold mines; Clearwater, Sentinel, and Blackbird.
Geology and Mineralization
The Golden Project is located within the Tenmile Gold District centered on the now-abandoned town of Golden, Idaho. The area contains a number of historical gold mines and large placer operations.
The geology is a series of grabens composed of metamorphosed Proterozoic belt sedimentary rocks, Cretaceous Idaho batholith intruded by Tertiary rhyolites, and dacitic dikes. Hydrothermal alteration consists of silicification, seritization, and chloritization. Mineralization is hosted by three types of broadly defined deposit types: Tertiary epithermal deposits, Cretaceous intrusive related gold systems, and orogenic shear zone deposits hosted within the batholith.
Mineralization includes disseminated low-grade precious metal mineralization in associated stockwork veins, hydraulic breccias and extensive widespread alteration; high-grade gold associated with discreet structurally controlled quartz veins and silicified zones.
Exploration History
Exploration in the district during the 1980’s and 1990’s included Newmont, Cypress-Amax, Kinross Gold, and Bema Gold primarily focused on near-surface bulk-tonnage gold potential. Premium Exploration conducted extensive drilling, soil sampling, as well as airborne and surface geophysics in the 2010 era. Currently, a Finnish gold producer, Endomines AB is developing the Friday project at Orogrande into an underground gold operation and has constructed a gold processing mill near Elk City.
The two GA lode claims (listed in the claims list below) cover the historic Golden Age Mine.
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